heart sutra

• #go https://plumvillage.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/2014-Thich-Nhat-Hanh-New-Heart-Sutra-letter-cc.pdf
• Adapted from https://plumvillage.org/about/thich-nhat-hanh/letters/thich-nhat-hanh-new-heart-sutra-translation#thays-letter, a work in progress (see also Mastodon posts):

[[Avalokiteshvara]] while practicing deeply in the [[insight that brings us to the other shore]], discovered that the [[five Skandhas]] are [[empty]], and with this realization overcame ill-being.

[[Sariputra]]: this [[Body]] (form) is empty and emptiness is this body. This body is none other than emptiness and emptiness is none other than this body.

The same is true of [[Feelings]], [[Perceptions]], [[Mental Formations]], and [[Consciousness]].

Sariputra: all phenomena bear the mark of emptiness; their nature is that of: no birth no death, no being no non-being no defilement no purity, no increasing no decreasing.

That is why Emptiness, Body, Feelings, Perceptions, Mental Formations and Consciousness are not separate [[self entities]].

• #pull [[gate gate paragate parasamgate bodhi svaha]]